vote for the most terrifying gigantic statue of all time

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God this thread is ruling me so hard

Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link

gonna save a bunch of these pictures

Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link

Voted Sulawesi btw, that thing is demonic

Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link

Does the writhing Vigelund column of humans not qualify? How tall is that thing?

Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link

these are all amazing but that Genghis Khan statue is the greatest

devvvine, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:18 (ten years ago) link

what is that giant adorable baby?

glasses jacket jerfman (how's life), Friday, 25 April 2014 15:28 (ten years ago) link

not nearly enough giant robots yet

j., Friday, 25 April 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link

( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazinger_Z )

koogs, Friday, 25 April 2014 15:35 (ten years ago) link

yessssss

j., Friday, 25 April 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1421/1393830115_a71fa3eefc.jpg

pic is not big but this thing really is impressive in person.

"The Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔 Taiyō no Tō?) is a building created by Japanese artist Tarō Okamoto. It was known as the symbol of Expo '70 and currently is preserved and located in the Expo Commemoration Park in Suita, Osaka, Japan. The tower has three faces on its front and back."

the tune was space, Friday, 25 April 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link

Honestly think that baby buddha thing is the scariest so far.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link

a better photo on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/phototouring/2268703256/

It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 16:46 (ten years ago) link

No Christ of the Ozarks, no credibility.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg/250px-09-02-06--ChristofOzarks.jpg

dan m, Friday, 25 April 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link

aw shit, missed it nevermind

dan m, Friday, 25 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link

look at me! i'm a plane!

It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Friday, 25 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haYApys-KSA

emil.y, Friday, 25 April 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link

http://www.wnd.com/images/jackson101231a.jpg

That's So (Eazy), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I00008abP2DV5ju4/s/850/850/029-Kazakhstan-Semipalatinsk-2008.jpg

I like this statue of Lenin in Kazakhstan, it's less gigantic than some of the other statues in this thread, though

soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link

bonus non-gigantic Lenin statue

soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:36 (ten years ago) link

seems like genghis khan is finished terrorizing everyone & is content to survey his homeland for eternity. this is still uncannily huge though

http://i.imgur.com/YgIxXQ8.jpg

― ogmor, Friday, April 25, 2014 6:28 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink


this is amazing

ciderpress, Friday, 25 April 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 April 2014 18:48 (ten years ago) link

if only they'd finished the palace of soviets (where ganon lives):

http://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/031.jpg

difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link

lenin as the lonely groom on a stalinist wedding cake

difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link

this thread rules

difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months)

there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote

building a desert (art), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link

the sphinx is pretty special, i like that its whole deal is Riddling, as in, what the fuck is THAT

difficult listening hour, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link

Put 100+ hours into dark souls, about to pick this up next Wednesday (after I sit for an actuary exam which has been ruining my life the last couple months) _there's something about the motherland calls that's spooky, maybe because it's also commemorating a battle where a million people died.
--christmas candy bar (al leong)_

Isn't it also positioned directly on top of the mass grave of those dead? It's an amazing statue and def my vote
--building a desert (art)

Hey thanks iphone app for saving a post I didn't make days ago and attaching it to the top of this one.

building a desert (art), Friday, 25 April 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/47893196.jpg

love the expression on this sheep's face

soref, Friday, 25 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link

would live inside that sheep

j., Friday, 25 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link

http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090709062212/wikiality/images/c/c7/MtRushmoreRearView.png

(warning: possibly not real, haven't seen in person)

StanM, Friday, 25 April 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link

eddie22.jpg

stuff n buff (anky), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:16 (ten years ago) link

weird in a way that so many of these are situated near pylons. seems to add another level of grotesque horror.

that ushiku daibutsu buddha seems especially jarring.

president of the people's republic of antarctica (Arctic Mindbath), Friday, 25 April 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link

nobody posted the horse at the denver airport?
http://extraordinaryintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/horse500.jpg

brimstead, Friday, 25 April 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link

that genghis statue is CRAZY and awesome

this thread is A+

ilx monument/statue threads always deliver imo

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link

ok is that denver horse real, because holy shit that is a terrifying nightmare (geddit)

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:41 (ten years ago) link

feeling this airavata one

http://www.asiaexplorers.com/pics/erawan-museum_samut-prakan.jpg

hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link

so many great things posted that I've missed, some statues have a v intense energy about them & depending on which angle you see them from, it can change. I don't know what the airavata is but it is pretty hectic

http://www.gothic.stir.ac.uk/documents/uploaded/image/Kasia%20pictures/grotesque/Erawan.JPG

the tian tan buddha in hong kong is on top of a hill and can looks like a bit of a loomer

https://jansenism.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/dsc020851.jpg

but from above or the cable car that goes by, he's radiating peace

http://hongkong.panduanwisata.com/files/2013/08/Tian-Tan-Buddha-hongkong.jpg

ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link

the cristo del otero is the creepiest statue I've seen imo, jesus looking emaciated with haunted eyes

http://fotodenuncias.elnortedecastilla.es/imagenes/DSC00125_1.jpg

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/4066/oteroc.jpg

ogmor, Friday, 25 April 2014 22:14 (ten years ago) link

alien jesus! there has to be an episode of ancient aliens covering this

hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 25 April 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link


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